Zionsville, IN
Zionsville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Zionsville lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 12,536 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Zionsville at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Zionsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Zionsville rates 56.1% Minimal exposure against just 43.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 12,536 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 12,536 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Zionsville against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Zionsville ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Zionsville ranks 28,426 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 435 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Zionsville and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Zionsville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Zionsville
Zionsville's 56.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Zionsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Zionsville's 28,426-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Zionsville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.